Newborn by Kate Clanchy
Nothing transforms our lives like parenthood -- and Kate Clanchy's intimate, daring sequence of poems maps the switchback ride of human emotions from conception through to the first years of a new life. Clanchy's most powerful and accomplished book of poetry to date, Newborn will delight her many admirers. This frank but ultimately celebratory account of the most extraordinary event in our shared experience is a must for parents -- and parents-to-be -- everywhere. 'A sparkling, tender, totally unsentimental study' Financial Times
"'A sparkling, tender, totally unsentimental study' Financial Times 'Newborn celebrates the early life of a son.. Clanchy is enchanted by the miracle of human development and these are the sort of poems to send any mother soppy' The Times"
Kate Clanchy is a writer, teacher and journalist. Her poetry collection Slattern won a Forward Prize. Her short story ‘The Not-Dead and the Saved’ won both the 2009 BBC National Short Story Award and the VS Pritchett Memorial Prize. Her novel Meeting the English was shortlisted for the Costa Prize. Her BBC 3 radio programme about her work with students was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes prize. In 2018 she was awarded an MBE for services to literature, and an anthology of her students' work, England: Poems from a School, was published to great acclaim. In 2019 she published Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, a book about her experience of teaching in state schools for several decades.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330419314 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330419315 |
| Title | Newborn |
| Author | Kate Clanchy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2005-03-04 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Forward Prize for Poetry Best Collection 2005 (UK) |
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